A BABY with a rare genetic condition has gone back into hospital days after finally being allowed home.

Bethany Kerrell, aged 13 weeks, was born with part of her chromosomes missing. She is connected to an oxygen supply and fed through a tube because she cannot swallow.

As revealed exclusively in the Worcester News earlier this month her mother, Kimberley, and Dad, Christopher, could not have her home in their small two-bedroom flat in Warndon because there was not enough room for all her medical equipment.

But at the end of last week they accepted that if they were to have her home, they must be willing to live in the cramped conditions - so they were sleeping on the sofa and had given Bethany their room.

But just two days after the family experienced the joy of being a family, Bethany was rushed back into Worcestershire Royal Hospital.

Mrs Kerrell, aged 20, said: "It was lovely to have her home and she was initially showing signs of improving as a result of it - she came off the oxygen for a while.

"But now her breathing has deteriorated and she is back in hospital. We are waiting for more information from the doctors and don't know when she will be well enough to go home again."